482 – The Mutant Gene for Murder

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

In which Pete Wisdom canonically smells weird; we are inordinately entertained by a villain; everyone levels up their superpowers; and you probably shouldn’t shave the logo of your secret super team into the side of your head.

X-PLAINED:

• Nasty Boys disambiguation
• X-Force #106-109
• Counter X (more) (again)
• Shockwave (more) (again)
• Turn-of-the-millennium cool
• X-Force (more) (again)
• How to dress for funerals, I guess?
• How Pete Wisdom smells
• Romany Wisdom (again)
• Marcus Tsung
• Mind bullets
• Nightman
• Our first audience challenge in a really long time
• A bad nickname
• X-Force’s new looks
• A thing growing out of Domino’s back
• Several enigmas shrouded in mystery
• The worst birthday party
• Abel, Baker, and Charlie
• Fish
• The Factory
• Telepathic “voices”
• The miracle of magnetism

NEXT EPISODE: The return of Chris Claremont!

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